Girl mistakes gun for Wii controller - kills herself

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CommonMan said:

twesterm said:

FreeTalkLive said:

twesterm said:

God I hope they don't blame this on games and not on the dumb-shit stepfather that left a loaded gun where a three year old could get a hold of it.

There's absolutely no excuse for that and I hope they charge him for manslaughter.

It's perfectly fine to own guns, but:

1. You should be taught in gun safety
2. Don't fucking leave it loaded
3. Leave it locked somewhere so that only the people who you want can have access to it

Rule #1 makes sense.

Though, leaving a gun loaded isn't usually a bad thing.  Also, leaving a gun locked up isn't usually needed, nor is it always a good thing.

What?

Don't get me wrong, I live in Texas and grew up on a farm so I'm all about guns but I'm sorry, you absolutely do not leave a loaded gun lying around and you don't leave it in a place where others can get a hold of it.  Violating both of those is just incredibly irresponsible and that's exactly how accidents like this happen.

You should never leave even an unloaded gun where a three year old can pick it up and if you're not using the gun it should be locked up somewhere where only specific people have access to it.  Gun safes are cheap these days and they are quick to get into if you have the access and do an excellent job of keeping the wrong people out.

To add to this, gun safe's with fingerprint reading tech in them are fairly cheap these days, if you absolutely must have a gun fairly handy.

Oh absolutely, I know a friend who had one 10 years ago so I imagine today they have to be even better.  If you have a gun there's no excuse whatsoever to not have something like that.

As I said earlier, it's just irresponsible to not have something like that and this article shows the consequences.